Below is an announcement about an open house at the Gill Tract in Albany, California, the site of last summer's Occupy the Farm movement. A result of that movement is that the University of California has given the UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources 10 acres for 10 years for urban agriculture and agroecology research. I have been participating in the fall research project there to grow as much food as possible, organized by UC Agroecology Professor Miguel Altieri, and the fertility of that soil is truly amazing! It is worth visiting the site just to see the incredible production that can come from food grown in high quality agricultural soil
Feel free to email me if you have any questions about the research project or the Oct 13th event. If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you might want to come to this event ! Hope to see you there ! Robin-- ****** Robin Mitchell El Cerrito Community Garden Network Email: [email protected] Web: https://www.sites.google.com/site/elcerritocommunitygarden/<http://mail.daylightmoon.com/hwebmail/services/go.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sites.google.com%2Fsite%2Felcerritocommunitygarden%2F> **************************************************************************************************************** Come celebrate the fruit of community efforts to cultivate and preserve an historic community farm, share food, enjoy and educational workshop, and dig in the soil! UCB College of Natural Resources, UC Cooperative Extension Alameda and The Gill Tract Farm Coalition invites you to *A Family Field Day & Community Forum at The Gill Tract Farm: Laboratory for a Resilient Future* Dig in the soil, learn how it was formed, what it meant to those who stewarded it before us, and what it could mean for our future *Sunday, October 13th* *10am-4pm* *10am-Noon * Open Field! Play on the farm, harvest, and check out a workshop, from kimchee making to anti-oppression to troubleshooting plant diseases *Noon-1pm* Lunch & Bake-Off Meal prepared with farm fresh produce. Try for the ribbon with your favorite dessert! *1-2pm * Storytelling circle Where we’ve been, visions for what’s ahead *2-4pm * Community Forum “Open Space” facilitated discussion to share ideas for next season’s projects at the Gill Tract Farm *Directions to the Gill Tract Farm: the entrance is located at Jackson Street and Ohlone Avenue (on the west side of the Gill Tract land, south of Buchanan Street ) in Albany, CA. * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20131003/587b9cf7/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
